Dinosaur
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Cast & Crew
Eric Leighton
Camille Winbush
Greg Finley
Alfre Woodard
Della Reese
Susan Stevens Logan
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A three-ton Iguanodon named Aladar, who is raised from the egg by a clan of lemurs and eventually reunited with his own kind, finds himself and the other dinosaurs in trouble when flaming meteors devastate the landscape and the water supply diminishes. In a race against time, the dinosaurs attempt to reach the safety of their nesting grounds. When Aladar comes to the aid of a group of misfits unable to keep up with the breakneck pace of the herd, he makes an enemy of Kron, the stone-hearted leader of the group. Faced with such perils as treacherous rock slides and attacking Carnotaurs, Aladar and his friends must overcome tremendous obstacles before they can settle into a new life in a beautiful valley.
Cast
Camille Winbush
Greg Finley
Alfre Woodard
Della Reese
Susan Stevens Logan
Chelsea Russo
David Mccharen
D.b. Sweeney
Melanie Spore
Bobbi Page
Tracy Metro
Catherine Cavadini
David Kramer
Barbara Harris
Peter Siragusa
Jeff Fischer
Sandina Bailolape
Daran Norris
Edie Lehmann-boddicker
Billy West
Evan Sabara
Aaron Alexander Spann
Noreen Reardon
Julianna Margulies
Joan Plowright
Holly Dorff
Max Casella
Matt Adler
John Walcutt
Zachary Bostrom
Samuel E Wright
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Ossie Davis
Andrea Baker
Hayden Panettiere
Crew
John Aardal
Julius Aguimatang
Archie K Ahuna
Josie Aiello
Craig Aines
Timothy Albee
Eric M Algren
Jacqueline Allard
Doctor Donald L Alvarez
Eric Alvarez
H. Leah Amir
Jason Anastas
Charles Anderson
Grant Anderson
Kurt Anderson
Bennett Stephen Andrews
Pete Anthony
Arthur Argote
Karl Armstrong
Cindy Lee Arnold
Joyce Arrastia
Barry Atkinson
Jeff Atmajian
Jim Aupperle
Jim Aupperle
Mark Anthony Austin
Bill Aylsworth
Hans Bacher
Jason Bachinski
Robert Bagley
Jeffrey Baksinski
Roger Balart
Gary Balikian
Lorenzo Russell Bambino
Richard M Barnes
Lynn Basas
Martin Baukind
Bobby 'boom' Beck
Michelle Beck
Darren Bedwell
Brian Behling
Bruce Bell
Judith A Bell
Judith A Bell
Elissa Bello
Michael Belzer
Doug Bennett
Robert M Berkus
Janet E Berlin
Randy Berrett
Otto Emilio Betancourt
James C Bette
John Bindon
Mark Blackham
Jennifer Blair
Dennis M Blakey
Jennifer Blechschmid
Baker Bloodworth
Mike Blum
Robert Edward Boas
Michael Boggs
Michael Bolds
Russell Boles
Jennifer Booth
Beau Borders
Tamara Boutcher
Kevin Bowe
Brett A. Boydstun
Christopher Boyes
Christopher Boyes
Christopher Boyes
Kim Boyle
Kenneth Brain
Justin Brandstater
Rebecca Wilson Bresee
Al Broussard
Alexandra Brown
Kaylee Michelle Brown
Iyan Michael Bruce
Thomas R Bryant
Marek Buchwald
Bruce D. Buckley
Stephen Buckley
Brent Burley
James Burton
James Burton
Kent Burton
Eamonn Butler
Darrin Butters
Robert A Calvo
Yancy Calzada
Brooks Campbell
Brooks Campbell
Jason Campbell
Jim Capobianco
Mark R Carlson
Vince Caro
Steven C Carpenter
William T Carpenter
Marcus Carter
Floyd Casey
Nhi Casey
Craig Caton-largent
Bernard O Ceguerra
John Cejka
Lawrence Chai
Yina Chang
Mark Chapman
Mark Cheng
Candice Chinn
Lisa Chino
Jennifer Cho
Loren Chun
Terry Claborn
Audrey Clark
Theresa Clark
Peter Clarke
Glen Claybrook
Stephanie Clifford
Dwayne Colbert
Danita Cole
Charles Colladay
Matthew M Collins
D Wallace Colvard
Craig Conwell
Mary Therese Corgan
Jason Cosler
Tena Cotton
Christopher Cowan
Stephen R Craig
Christine Cram
Doug Cram
Robyn Crane
Jeannette Cremarosa
Lorrie Cross-holguin
James Michael Crossley
Christian Cunnigham
Nathaniel W Cushman
Michael Daugherty
Lynn Davies
Jay N Davis
Lisa Davis
Sandy De Crescent
Christopher A. Debiec
Brad Dechter
Margaret A Decker
Jeff Deckman
Guy Deel
Karen Dejong
Ricardo Delgado
Ricardo Delgado
John Derderian
Dawnie Desantis
Monique Deschamps
Diana Devries
Feliciano Di Girgio
Ross Dickinson
Stewart Dickson
Liane Abel Dietz
Gerard Dinardi
Lyly Do
Julia Dole
Peter Dress
Elena Driskill
Hank Driskill
Dave M Drulias
David J Dumas
John Dumas
Mark Duvall
Tony Eckert
Chris Edwards
Curtis Edwards
Jeff Edwards
Jerry A Eisenberg
Mark Empey
Thom Enriquez
Thom Enriquez
Stacey Ernst-campbell
Neil Eskuri
Frank Eulner
Vincent G Everly
William Fadness
Robert Falco
Karen Faust
Paul Felix
Andre Fenley
Esther Ferrer-cardona
Chadd Ferron
Lisa A Fisher
Bill Fletcher
Joel Fletcher
Marc Fleury
Cory Rocco Florimonte
Pamela Schell Focht
Bonnie Jean Foley
Stephen Foley
Bobby L Fowler
Andrew Francis
Marc Francouer
Brian Franczak
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Ossie Davis (1917-2005)
He was born Raiford Chatman Davis on December 18, 1917 in Cogdell, Georgia. His parents called him "R.C." When his mother registered his birth, the county clerk misunderstood her and thought she said "Ossie" instead of "R.C.," and the name stuck. He graduated high school in 1936 and was offered two scholarships: one to Savannah State College in Georgia and the other to the famed Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, but he could not afford the tuition and turned them down. He eventually saved enough money to hitchhike to Washington, D.C., where he lived with relatives while attending Howard University and studied drama.
As much as he enjoyed studying dramatics, Davis had a hunger to practice the trade professionally and in 1939, he left Howard University and headed to Harlem to work in the Rose McClendon Players, a highly respected, all-black theater ensemble in its day.
Davis' good looks and deep voice were impressive from the beginning, and he quickly joined the company and remained for three years. With the onset of World War II, Davis spent nearly four years in service, mainly as a surgical technician in an all-black Army hospital in Liberia, serving both wounded troops and local inhabitants before being transferred to Special Services to write and produce stage shows for the troops.
Back in New York in 1946, Davis debuted on Broadway in Jeb, a play about a returning black soldier who runs afoul of the Ku Klux Klan in the deep south. His co-star was Ruby Dee, an attractive leading lady who was one of the leading lights of black theater and film. Their initial romance soon developed into a lasting bond, and the two were married on December 9, 1948.
With Hollywood making much more socially conscious, adult films, particularly those that tackled themes of race (Lonely Are The Brave, Pinky, Lost Boundaries all 1949), it wasn't long before Hollywood came calling for Davis. His first film, with which he co-starred with his wife Dee, was a tense Joseph L. Mankiewicz's prison drama with strong racial overtones No Way Out (1950). He followed that up with a role as a cab driver in Henry Hathaway's Fourteen Hours (1951). Yet for the most part, Davis and Dee were primarily stage actors, and made few film appearances throughout the decade.
However, in should be noted that much of Davis time in the '50s was spent in social causes. Among them, a vocal protest against the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and an alignment with singer and black activist Paul Robeson. Davis remained loyal to Robeson even after he was denounced by other black political, sports and show business figures for his openly communist and pro-Soviet sympathies. Such affiliation led them to suspicions in the anti-Communist witch hunts of the early '50s, but Davis, nor his wife Dee, were never openly accused of any wrongdoing.
If there was ever a decade that Ossie Davis was destined for greatness, it was undoubtly the '60s. He began with a hit Broadway show, A Raisin in the Sun in 1960, and followed that up a year later with his debut as a playwright - the satire, Purlie Victorious. In it, Davis starred as Purlie, a roustabout preacher who returns to southern Georgia with a plan to buy his former master's plantation barn and turn it into a racially integrated church.
Although not an initial success, the play would be adapted into a Tony-award winning musical, Purlie years later. Yet just as important as his stage success, was the fact that Davis' film roles became much more rich and varied: a liberal priest in John Huston's The Cardinal (1963); an unflinching tough performance as a black soldier who won't break against a sadistic sergeant's racial taunts in Sidney Lumet's searing war drama The Hill (1965); and a shrewd, evil butler who turns the tables on his employer in Rod Serling's Night Gallery (1969).
In 1970, he tried his hand at film directing, and scored a hit with Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970), a sharp urban action comedy with Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques as two black cops trying to stop a con artist from stealing Harlem's poor. It's generally considered the first major crossover film for the black market that was a hit with white audiences. Elsewhere, he found roles in some popular television mini-series such as King, and Roots: The Next Generation (both 1978), but for the most part, was committed to the theater.
Happily, along came Spike Lee, who revived his film career when he cast him in School Daze (1988). Davis followed that up with two more Lee films: Do the Right Thing (1989), and Jungle Fever (1991), which also co-starred his wife Dee. From there, Davis found himself in demand for senior character parts in many films throughtout the '90s: Grumpy Old Men (1993), The Client (1994), I'm Not Rappaport (1996), and HBO's remake of 12 Angry Men (1997).
Davis and Dee celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1998 with the publication of a dual autobiography, In This Life Together, and in 2004, they were among the artists selected to receive the Kennedy Center Honors. Davis had been in Miami filming an independent movie called Retirement with co-stars George Segal, Rip Torn and Peter Falk.
In addition to his widow Dee, Davis is survived by three children, Nora Day, Hasna Muhammad and Guy Davis; and seven grandchildren.
by Michael T. Toole
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Ossie Davis (1917-2005)
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Winner of the 2000 Golden Satellite Award for Best Sound (Frank Eulner) from the International Press Academy.
Released in United States on Video January 30, 2001
Released in United States Spring May 19, 2000
Film marks Disney's in-house feature debut in computer character animation.
Began shooting September 15, 1997.
Film combines live-action and computer animation.
Released in United States on Video January 30, 2001
Released in United States Spring May 19, 2000